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Summary: Your Child's Health
Review: "Your Child's Health" is a great resource. This book saved me many trips to the Doctor's office. This book was a baby gift that helped me through the fears of "something is wrong with my newborn." My baby is now 15 months old and I still refer to this book first and will continue to use it for many more years to come. It helps will newborn problems all the way to adolescent problem. "Your Child's Health" has a great index that is easy to use. You are easily able to find what you are looking for. The book also advises you on when you need to call the doctor and if not, how to treat the problem at home. Of course, you always need to rely on your own instincts, but it is a great reference, especially if you happen to be a worrier.
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Summary: Reliable and Practical
Review: As a mother of 4 children I worried about everything and had bought several different healthcare books over the years. But this is the one that still put all my fears in perspective. It is no-nonsense and easy to use once you understand the layout anyway. Emergency info in front, parenting advice in the middle and illnesses in the back seperated into logical catagories. He explains illnesses/injuries in easy to understand language and then tells you what to look out for and at what point you should bring them into the doctor. I always cross-check the book info with my doctor and have found this one to be the most reliable of the healthcare books that I have. It has saved me a lot of embarrassing, unnessary trips to the doctor over the years! My only complaint is that some of the info is starting to get outdated. So I am trying to keep this one together until an updated edition comes out.
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Summary: Reliable and Practical
Review: As a mother of 4 children I worried about everything and had bought several different healthcare books over the years. But this is the one that still put all my fears in perspective. It is no-nonsense and easy to use once you understand the layout anyway. Emergency info in front, parenting advice in the middle and illnesses in the back seperated into logical catagories. He explains illnesses/injuries in easy to understand language and then tells you what to look out for and at what point you should bring them into the doctor. I always cross-check the book info with my doctor and have found this one to be the most reliable of the healthcare books that I have. It has saved me a lot of embarrassing, unnessary trips to the doctor over the years! My only complaint is that some of the info is starting to get outdated. So I am trying to keep this one together until an updated edition comes out.
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Summary: Outstanding! The essential reference for any parent.
Review: As a pediatric nurse practitioner, this book is my favorite reference for all those "normal" questions that come up on a daily basis. Written for parents in a format that takes the guesswork out of when to call your provider. This book covers almost any situation a parent could encounter. It's the gift I give all my friends when they become parents for the first time. I'm ordering another 2 copies tonight!
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Summary: A helpful hand
Review: As a pediatric nurse, we recommend this book to a majority of our patients. We also use this book as a reference in the clinic I work at. It's easy to find the problems you need to address and lets you know what to do....treatments at home, when to see the doctor or when it is an emergency. It answers a lot of questions without having to call a doctor or nurse.
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Summary: A guide for the tip of the nose to the tips of the toes...
Review: As an RN at a "telephone triage", we use this book as an excellent backup resource and recommend it to many parents who use our free service. If everyone had this book, I'd probably be out of a job. This makes a great baby shower gift.
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Summary: In its time is was good, but it's out of date
Review: As this book is nearly a decade old, it desperately needs updating. It makes little or no reference to attachment parenting, "child-wearing", or co-sleeping. Prescription information is woefully outdated. Current research on breast-feeding is obviously non-existent and the ear thermometer (a device available for over five years now) was, at the time of this book "not yet available for public use." In today's day and age, you should not have to risk your child's health relying on out-dated information.
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Summary: Pediatrician gave this one to me!
Review: How could I survive without this book? This is the most practical gift I can think of for new parents!
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Summary: good triage recommendations, BUT....
Review: I always find it suspect when a person, by virtue of an M.D., considers himself an expert on all sorts of things. Medical training does not necessarily make one an expert on child development (an area almost ignored by most family doctors in the exam room) or discipline (the average M.D. is probably home to administer discipline significantly less than the average mom), and it certainly doesn't qualify them as experts on breast-feeding (when did you last lactate, Dr. Schmidt?) or how to juggle the roles of a working mother. What is very helpful about the book and has made it a well-thumbed reference in my home, is the triage approach to symptoms/illnesses. Dr. Schmidt gives clear guidelines as to what constitutes an emergency, and what can easily be handled at home, as well as how to handle it. His guidelines distinguish between varying levels of severity by saying, "Call your physician immediately if: A, B, or C. Call your physician within 24 hours if: D, E, or F. Call your physician during normal office hours if: G or H." Very helpful in letting a parent know what to be alarmed about. I agree thoroughly with [...] who pointed out whole areas of infant/child care which are pooh-poohed in this book. Dr. Schmidt would have us believe that babies over 4 months old should not be nursed at intervals less than 4 hours, and that all co-sleeping/family bed arrangements are at best pointless and silly and cause parents to lose sleep. If your parenting philosophy coincides with this, you'll probably love the book. Otherwise, like me, you'll find the book irritating even as you find it helpful. In the meantime, trust your own instincts on such things as development and discipline or try out some of the Dr. Sears books.
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Summary: Perfect for baby shower gift!!
Review: I am buying this today for yet another friend expecting a child soon. I can't say how many copies I've purchaced for friends. My pediatrician insisted we purchace this book (he was one of the peds that reviewed it prior to publication) and we use it constantly with our 2 young boys. It has become so "dog-eared" that it stays in a ziplock bag till we need it. We take it with us whenever we travel and especially when we camp. It covers every possible question and should be a part of parent's first aid kits.
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